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Brian Fargo
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Brian Fargo

American video game executive

Frank Brian Fargo is an American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment, inXile Entertainment and Robot Cache.2

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Born Dec 15, 1962.1

About

In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedCorona del Mar High School3

Early life

A descendant of the family that created the banking giants Wells Fargo and American Express, Fargo was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up in Whittier and Newport Beach. The only child of Frank Byron Fargo and Marie Curtis Fargo, he attended Corona del Mar High School, where he participated in track and field and developed a desire to create video games after his parents bought him an Apple II computer in 1977.

Brian Fargo wrote his first video game, Labyrinth of Martagon, with his friend Michael Cranford while still in high school. The team's first widely distributed game was the graphical text adventure The Demon's Forge, which Brian self-published and guerilla marketed in 1981 (and was later re-released by Boone Corporation). In 1982,

Softline Magazine printed a letter from Fargo asking how On-Line Systems stored graphics in its graphic adventure The Wizard and the Princess. During this time period, he also wrote educational games for the World Book Encyclopedia.

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Career

Occupation: screenwriter, video game producer.7

Personal life

  • BornDec 15, 1962, Long Beach8
  • CitizenshipUnited States9

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